From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e4b2dce209393666 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality Date: 1999/12/09 Message-ID: <82ochh$27p$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 558415681 References: <82hk54$cbc$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net> <82kv5j$k6p$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <384eabe7.13628242@news.netidea.com> <82mlvh$mb0$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x43.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Dec 09 13:58:11 1999 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-12-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <82mlvh$mb0$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net>, Richard D Riehle wrote: > Excellent example of a "bug" as something that enters your > product from outside. We find the same kind of "bug" in the > form of cosmic radiation in satellites. This is a correct use > of "bug." What programmers usually call a "bug" is a defect > due to some mistake. That "bug" was created by us through > commission or commission. You cannot change the language to be the way you want it to be. Sure, like Humpty-Dumpty in Alice, you can make words mean whatever you like, but if you want to be understood, you need to use words in a standard manner. The word "bug" has a securely established meaning (which incidentally is well described in the OED). We are not about to change the meaning radically because one person thinks it would be good to do so. Personally I think Juliet had it right, and to paraphrase "a bug by any other name would stink as bad" Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.